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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2705d | 346 | EURid inks trademark protection deal for non-trademark... .eu registry EURid is partnering on an alerts service for would-be trademark owners. The company this week announced a deal with the EU Intellectual Property Office that will see applicants for European trademarks being... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2705d | 302 | CENTR: domain growth now slowest EVER The number of registered domain names in the world is growing at its slowest rate ever, according to CENTR. Its latest CENTRstats Global TLD Report, covering the first quarter of 2019, shows median domain growth of 3.4%... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2705d | 325 | Court rules domain name list should stay secret Publishing a list of every domain name in their zone is something that most TLD registries do automatically on a daily basis, but a court in Chile has ruled that doing so is a cybersecurity risk. NIC Chile, which runs... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2705d | 293 | PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released This is a maintenance release to optionally reduce the performance impact of memory-statistics collection and a fix in the DNSSEC processing of wildcard records. The changelog: #7673: Add the disable-real-memory-usage... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2705d | 403 | ICANN redacts the secrets of Verisign’s .web deal Afilias thinks it has found the smoking gun in its fight to wrestle .web out of the hands of rival Verisign, but for now the details are still a closely guarded secret. The company recently filed an amended complaint in... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2705d | 350 | Got a spare three grand? For a limited period, you can buy.. The Thailand ccTLD registry s unusual, and unusually expensive, approach to selling second-level domains has seen .th open up for another limited-period application window. Until June 30, anyone can pay THNIC Foundation... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2706d | 329 | Financement du logiciel de coordination d'actions... Une campagne de financement est en cours pour le logiciel Mobilizon (https://joinmobilizon.org/). Ce logiciel doit permettre de créer des services Internet de coordination d'actions. Que l'action soit une manifestation,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2707d | 370 | Amazon wins! ICANN on verge of approving .amazon despite... Amazon has one foot over the finish line in its seemingly endless battle for the .amazon gTLD. ICANN last week nudged its application along to probably its final hurdle and gave the strongest indication yet that the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2710d | 364 | WordPress-linked .blog dumps Nominet for CentralNic Knock Knock Whois There, the .blog registry, has announced its decision to switch back-end registry providers. The company, which is owned by WordPress.com owner Automattic, said that it has dropped Nominet in favor of... |
| ISC.org | 2711d | 12 | ISC's Board of Directors Rick Adams, Chair Richard L. Adams, Jr. is the founder of UUNET Technologies, the first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) and one of the largest Internet traffic carriers in the world in the 1990s. |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2711d | 321 | Brand-blocking service plotted for porn gTLDs MMX wants to offer a new service for trademark owners worried about cybersquatting in its four porn-themed gTLDs. The proposed Adult Block Services would be similar to Donuts groundbreaking Domain Protected Marks List... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2711d | 371 | Five more gTLD deadbeats fingered by ICANN The company that tried unsuccessfully to get the .islam new gTLD has been slammed by ICANN for failing to pay its dues on five different gTLDs. Asia Green IT System, based in Turkey, has been considered past due on its... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2717d | 322 | Defunct Famous Four ordered to hand $1.5 million back to... Former domain registry manager Famous Four Media has been ordered to return money to investors that was being used as insurance against its portfolio of gTLDs going out of business. In an April 18 ruling (pdf) from... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2717d | 553 | Future of .io domains has become party-political issue in... The future of the Chagos Islands and therefore the longevity of .io domain names may well depend on which party holds the reins of power in the UK. The current Conservative government under Theresa May has this month... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2718d | 372 | Sur l'Internet, citoyen ou simple consommateur ? Si vous regardez la télévision, ou écoutez les discours officiels, vous avez l'impression que l'Internet sert uniquement au commerce en ligne, et à nourrir Facebook et YouTube en leur laissant le plus de données... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 325 | ICANN to host first-ever high-stakes dot-brand auction Two companies that own trademark rights to the same brand are to fight it out at an ICANN auction for the first time. Germany-based Merck Group will fight it out for .merck with American rival Merck Co at an auction... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 324 | Dead dot-brands hit 50 Two more dot-brands are on their way out, bringing the total to fall on their swords to date to a nice round 50. Both of the new departures appear to be brands belonging to the Saudi telecommunications company Etihad... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 346 | Turkish government takes over ccTLD Turkey s ccTLD has been transferred into government hands. ICANN s board of directors at the weekend formally approved a redelegation request from the country to its IANA division. The new official ccTLD manager is Bilgi... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 279 | Pricey .inc does quite well in sunrise The new gTLD .inc, which goes into general availability today, had a better-than-average number of sales in its sunrise period. Intercap Registry, which runs .inc, said today that it had over 270 sunrise registrations.... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2719d | 319 | ICANN plans return to Cancun in 2021 ICANN has named the locations of two of its 2021 public meetings. Notably, it will return to Cancun, Mexico, in the March for ICANN 70, just one year after hosting ICANN 67 there. In both years, the dates appear to... |
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